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“Iraqiya Slate said that it has submitted to the Presidency names of its nominees for the post of Defence Minister. Iraqiya’s spokeswoman, Maysoun al-Damaluji told NINA on Thursday, Sep. 1, “Iraqiya Slated submitted to the Presidency the names of 9-10 nominees for the post of Defence Minister to put an end to the argument and put an end to the issue. But she did not announce the names and whether they are new or include previous nominees. She pointed out that all the names mentioned by the media are not true, they reflect their opinion…….”

The Iraqiya bloc (of Allawi and former Ba’athists) submitted TEN names as candidates for Defense Minister. Imagine being asked for “a” and candidate and submitting TEN! What a fucked-up system of leadership decision-making is that? This only means the al-Iraqiya bloc could not decide who to nominate: they handed the problem up to the prime minister. If they can’t decide whom to nominate, how did they expect to rule Iraq?
(Iraqi politics are odd, odder than even the Republican Tea Party politics in America).
Cheers
mhg


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